“Attorney General Jeff Sessions was questioned for several hours last week as part of the special counsel investigation, the Justice Department confirmed Tuesday, making him the first member of President Trump’s cabinet to be interviewed in the inquiry.”

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is increasingly focusing on potential obstruction of justice by President Trump in relation to the firing of FBI director James Comey in May 2017. Mueller’s team has informed the President’s lawyers that he will likely interview him in person.

As a strong supporter of Trump during the campaign, and his foreign policy advisor, Sessions was close to the Trump team throughout the campaign, while he was a sitting U.S. Senator.

During the transition between the election and Inauguration, Sessions was one of a number of prominent Republicans who served as vice chairs: Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie, former House Speaker (and current spouse of the U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican) Newt Gingrich, retired neurosurgeon (and current Housing and Urban Development Secretary) Ben Carson, retired Lieutenant General (and briefly serving National Security Advisor) Michael Flynn, and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (whose son currently works in the White House).​An article about the transition team, written a few days after the election, can be found here.http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/11/sen_jeff_sessions_leading_trum.html